Mosquito-canopy frame



(N0 Mod el.)

A. JATHO.

MOSQUITO GANOPY FRAME. No. 447,878. Patented Mar. 10, 1891.

UNITED STATES ADAM JATI'IO, OF VICTORIA, TEXAS.

MOSQUITO-CANOPY FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,878, dated March10, 1891.

Application filed November 16, 1889. Serial No. 330,430. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADAM JATHO, a citizen of the United States, residingat Victoria, in the county of Victoria and State of Texas, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Mosquito-Canopy Frames; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to mosquito-canopies, and has for its object tosimplify the construction and increase the strength of the parts and thefacility with which they are put together and taken apart; and to suchends the invention consists in the construction and combination of partshereinafter particularly described and claimed, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, forming part hereof.

Figure 1 is a perspective of a bed with the canopy-frame attachedthereto. Fig. 2 is a side view of the upper portion of the frame withparts broken away and others in section. Fig. 3 is a detail view of oneform of lock. Fig. 4 is a similar view of another form of lock. Fig. 5is'a rear view of the upper part of the frame, with parts broken awayand the upper cross-bar separated from the uprights. Fig. 6 is a view ofone form of loop, and Fig. 7 a similar view of another form in whichscrews or nails may be employed.

In the drawings, the letter A designates the head portion of a bedstead,to the upright posts B of which are attached the loops 0, to receive theupright standards D of the canopyframe, said standards having an offsetE at together, as described, the several parts are strongly braced andclose and tight joint made between the uprights and cross-bar, with themeans connecting them at the joint completely concealed from View. Theparts can also be readily separated by simply tapping upwardly on thelower edge of the trans- Verse connecting-bar.

The front faces of the upright standards a their upper ends are alsoformed with recesses J, having transverse flanges or pins K therein,with which will engage hooks L, formed on the rear of brackets M. Thesehooks enter the recesses and pass back of the pins or flanges, and arethen dropped, so that their hook ends will engage the pins and hold thebrackets to their places. They can be readily removed by simply tappingon their under faces, so as to lift them up. It is preferred to securepins N to the lower portions of thebrackets and recesses O in theupright standards to receive them, so as to brace the lower parts of thebrackets against side pressure; but such are not absolutely necessary.

Instead of the cross-pin in the recesses, I may use merely a plate setacross the recess, the plate having a slot in it, but not as deep as therecess in the standard, so that the edge of the plate at the lower endwill constitute a flange as the equivalent of the pin for the hook toengage with, as illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4t; and instead of a hook ofthe form shown in Fig. 2 I may use a headed pin, as shown in Fig. 3, thehead of the pin serving as the hook, and when such form is used the slotin the plate or the recess may have the upper portion larger than thelower portion, so that the head may enter the larger portion and whendropped down will pass back of the narrower portion, so as to bearagainst the back of the plate, whose edges at the reduced portion serveas the equivalent of the transverse pin, as shown in Fig. 3, or the formof hook shown in Fig. 4 may be used; but the preferred form of hook isthat illustrated in Fig. 2, where it is set inside the bracket orcross-bar and pivoted therein with the hook portion projecting outside,so as to enter the recess and engage the pin. hen-pivoted as described,the hook has a slight movement that will accommodate it to slightvariations in positions of parts resulting from shrinkage or otherwise,and will thus always insure easy attachment and detachments of parts andat the same time preserve a close joint.

The upright standards at a point above the brackets on their front facesare provided with threaded cavities or holes P, designed to receive thethreaded ends of the side rods or bars Q, the opposite ends of whichside bars are also threaded and designed to enter threaded holes in theends of the front cross bar or rod R. The threads on one end of the siderods are right threads and those on the other left threads, so that bybringing the ends of the rods into the threaded holes in the uprightstandards and front cross-bars and then turning the side bars theupright standards and front bars Will be simultaneously drawn together,and in that way not only are the standards and front cross-bar stronglyand securely held together, but they are brought together withoutstraining any part of the whole frame and with the greatest facility.

The frame constructed in accordance with the foregoing description issimple and strong in its several parts, and easily put together andtaken apart by persons having no experience in such matters, and can becompactly packed for storage when not required for use.

I am aware that it is old in bed steads to form the side pieces withhooks to engage pins in recesses formed in the head and foot pieces ofthe bedstead; also that it is old to provide chairs with rounds havingright and left threads to screw into threaded holes made in the legs ofthe chair; also that it is old in mosquito-canopies to have a cornerbracket between the upright standards and the side bars, and also tohave the side and cross bars secured to an upright standard by pins, andbracing corner brackets secured to the upright standards and side barsby pins. 1,

however, make no claim to any such features, but only to the particularconstruction specitied in the following claim, which has as essentialelements, among other features, the particular construction of uprightstandards therein specified and the combination therepermitting them tobe screwed in and out, as

illustrated.

Having described my invention and set forth its merits, what I claim is-A mosquitocanopy comprisingthe standards D, each formed on its insideface with a recess provided with a cross projection for a hook to engageand on its front face with a recess provided with a cross projection,and at a point above said last recess with a threaded aperture, across-bar I, extending from one standard D to the other and provided atits ends with hooks entering the recesses formed in said standards andextending down back of the cross projections of said recesses, thebrackets M, provided with hooks entering the recesses in the front ofthe standards D and extending back of the cross projections thereto, thetop faces of the brackets being below the threaded apertures in thestandards, the front cross-bar having threaded apertures, and the sidebars resting upon said brackets so as to turn thereon, and having theirends threaded and entering the threaded apertures of the standards andof the front cross-bar, said thread being right and left, so that byturning the side bars the standards and front cross-bar will besimultaneously adjusted to and from each other, said bracket serving tosupport said side bars during their adjustment, substantially as andforthe pur-' poses set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence oftwo witnesses.

ADAM J ATIIO. Witnesses:

O. L. THURMOND, Sn, E. A. PERRENOT.

